Wena usuwenzeni ekhaya?

Nansi ke lendatshana. (Hlala esitulweni sakho osithandayo uyifunde ukholise)
Kungomyaka ka 2002 ebusika (summer) Nginxuswe ngumngane edililini elincincane. Angisakhumbili kahle ukuthi lelo dili lalingelani, kodwa ngicabanga ukuthi kwakuyikukhudumeza amaseko nje iskhathi somqando siside lapha kozitshebo ziyatshebana. Ngalesikhathi angikabazi abantu abanengi abakhaya kule Ie community ye Indianapolis. Mina njengomnuntu owafika masinyane kulelidili ngafica kungakabaswa umlilo. Ngancediswa ukubasa umlilo, lokosa inyama lapha. Aluba ngisaphitshekile ngezenayma kufike amadoda amabili amthathu, ayazanayo.  Itshe ke lapha inxoxo. Axoxa ngezinto asezenzile ekhaya "in tems of development"

Athi omunye, ebuza omunye, Isinganani indlu yakho leyana owawuyakha? Hawu isizaphela, sokusele uphahla le lamwindi! (Amafasitela) Baxoxe sibili baze kukhanya bayakholisa. "Mina isamende ngenza okokuyothola eZambia ngilamaconnections khonale" ungaseke ungikhonekithe lami bantu. Hatshi ngizakuconnecta fethu ungakhathazeki. Eyami yamiswa ngikuswelakala kwesamende, uyabe wenze kahle!

Amadoda lawa, axoxa nje mina ngilokhu ngithule nje ikhanda lifuthwa yintuthu ngilwisana lokosa inyama. Kuthi omunye walawa ngadoda onguye oqale le inkulumo yenqubekela phambili, angibheke ebusweni ngenhlamvu zamehlo athi" Kanti ke wena ndoda wathula nje kanti usuwenzeni ekhaya? Ungibuza nje usenengwe yikithula kwami.

Dukuduku sokumele lami ngilandise lokhu engikwenzileyo ekhaya. Ngimphendule kahle mgithi , "yatshi mina angikenzi lutho olumangalisayo" Abesengicebisa ngalokhu angicebisa khona, ngingambuzanga. Kwakuyileziyana insuku abantu besakhumbula ukuthi , kuyabuyelwa ekhaya, ngeminyaka emibili emithathu elandelayo. Kuze kube khathesi phinde. Sonke lokhe sizihlalele lapha sokusekhaya. Akasekho umuntu okhuluma ngokuya ekhaya abantwana sebesezikolo.
 Kuthi ngelikade sekudliwe kwanathwa, labantu sebebanengi lumuntu we nqubekala phambili ayiphethe emahlombe aqale njalo.  Atsho komunye, athi kanti wena usewenzeni ekhaya, mina sengincedise iskolo sakithi lapha lalaphaya, ngakha indlu yami elezindlu ezithile. (Ngizaqhubeka ngeviki elizayo)

Thatcher was instrumental in destroying Pf ZAPU!

 

 

It’s reported that Thatcher had a good relationship with President Robert Mugabe and their relationship grew stronger after independence when Mugabe became Prime Minister.
The “Iron Lady” was British Prime Minister during the Gukurahundi massacres where 20 000 Ndebele people are estimated to have been killed by Mugabe’s North Korean trained Fifth Brigade between 1983 and 1987.
“The British covered it up and went on to knight Mugabe in 1994, four years after Thatcher left office,” said a commentator who did not want to be identified.
ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa remembers Thatcher as the British leader who at least managed to bring development towards a ceasefire in Zimbabwe, but said her government was part of a plot to
destroy his party’s armed wing – Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA).
“We in ZIPRA accuse the British of having been part and parcel of that plot to destroy ZIPRA and to destroy ZAPU as a party. They were responsible. In fact we think they hired the North Koreans to do that because the British themselves did not want blood on their hands.”
Dabengwa said the British worked behind the scenes during the Matebeland disturbance and made sure there was no publicity about the atrocities in their own country.
“They stated it very clearly. We know it. ZIPRA was too close to the Russians. It was during the Cold War and Russia was the enemy, so similarly ZIPRA was the enemy,” the ZAPU leader said

King Mzilikazi's statue coming to Bulawayo

THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) in partnership with the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) and Amakhosi Cultural Centre has come up with an ambitious project of establishing tourists' sites within the city to boost arrivals of foreign visitors ahead of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) conference set to be co-hosted by Zimbabwe and Zambia in August this year.
The lucrative venture will see the local authority erecting statues of King Mzilikazi and Queen Lozikeyi in the city and facelifting of some of the council's facilities.
The initial cost of the project has been pegged at $165 000.
According to the latest council report, nine sites have already been identified under the City Tourism Project.
These sites include the City Hall Foyer along Fife Street (The Lahlamkhonto Memorial panel and the Old Well), the Shangani Battle Cenotaph along Main Street, the 1989 Public Execution Tree and Inxwala Festival Ground also along Main Street, the Mzilikazi Memorial Fountain, Arts and Craft Centre, Makokoba Herbal Market, Stanley Hall and Square, Magwegwe Water Tower, Umguza Dam and Hillside Dam.
Tourists will have to pay US$3 for the tour of these sites.
"On Monday, 21 January 2013 a team from Bulawayo City Council, Zimbabwe Tourism Authority and Amakhosi Cultural Centre had visited the sites to see what was needed to spruce them up and make them tourist friendly.
"The team had conducted a needs analysis and possible requirements as Zimbabwe Tourism Authority had indicated that they could sponsor the rehabilitation of tourism sites," reads part of the report.
Among some of the facelifts that are envisaged is the erection of a statue of Queen Lozikeyi by the edge of the city hall fountain, the park area upgraded and maintained at all times and restoration of the city hall fountain,
"At the execution tree it had been noted that the tree was growing uncontrollably and would eventually grow into the buildings behind it, appropriate signage should be put by the tree to ensure that the public is aware of its significance to avoid its destruction.
"The Inxwala Festival grounds were to be turned into a low maintenance park with free growing indigenous trees to be left to grow, the park will be designed to have indigenous trees only and the ground cleared, and benches placed on different parts of the park as well as tall sculptures in random parts of the park," reads the report.

A statue of King Mzilikazi will also be put up at the Mzilikazi Memorial Fountain, Arts And Craft Centre where the fountain and flower roundabout will also be restored.
It was resolved that the Magwegwe Water Tower would be made the image for the City and not necessarily a tourist sight as it will be used in brochures together with the City Hall clock as a way of creating iconic images for the city.
"The Water Tower will be painted with bright colours to create a clear symbol of the city and the putting up of a climbing structure outside the reservoir area to create activity around the Bulawayo symbol as well as enable those who want to take pictures with climbing the steps being protected and at a fee," reads the minutes.

Commenting on these developments Bulawayo mayor, Councillor Thaba Moyo said they were a step in the right direction as it would ensure that the city bites into the number of tourists visiting the country and further boost revenue inflows.
"Frankly, this is a positive investment as we will be able to get more revenue from these tourists when they visit the city and it further improves the wholesome image of the city," said Clr Moyo

Zimbabwe investigating the judge who ordered release of activist lawyer

 

By MacDonald Dzirutwe

 

HARARE (Reuters) - A Zimbabwean judge who ordered police to free prominent human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa last month is being investigated for misconduct, state media reported on Friday.
High Court Judge Charles Hungwe had also granted the country's anti-corruption commission a warrant to search the offices of three ministers from President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party in March.

Opponents of ZANU-PF criticised the investigation into Hungwe as an attack on the independence of the judiciary.
Zimbabweans voted overwhelmingly in a March 16 referendum for a new constitution that would curb presidential powers, paving the way for elections later this year.
But Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Mugabe's rival, and rights groups say the veteran president and his party are already undermining the chances of a free and fair poll.
The state-owned Herald newspaper said Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku had opened an inquiry into Hungwe over allegations he failed to sentence a man convicted of robbery and murder 10 years ago.
It carried an interview with the convicted man in which he said he had been held in jail since 2003 when he was found guilty by Hungwe, but was never sentenced.
Mtetwa, who has won international awards for her defence of journalists and opposition politicians, was arrested on March 17 and accused of shouting at and taking pictures of police who were searching the home of one of Tsvangirai's aides.
Hungwe ordered her release hours later at a midnight hearing at his farm outside Harare. She was freed on bail on March 25.

The judge was criticised by state media and senior ZANU-PF member Jonathan Moyo, who dismissed his decision as "a night court dispensing night justice under the cover of the night".
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, of whom Mtetwa is the most prominent member, said the investigation into Hungwe could be the beginning of a wider crackdown on judges seen as independent.
"There is a knock-on effect also in relation to the legal profession. Lawyers will similarly become fearful of vigorously and lawfully pursuing their clients' rights," it said in a statement.
The chief justice could not be reached for comment by Reuters but the registrar at the Supreme Court told the Herald Chidyausiku would make a statement "at the appropriate time".

Private media in the southern African nation also attacked the Hungwe investigation. "It falls within an established, clumsy but systematic pattern of harassment and purges of judges considered officially undesirable," the Zimbabwe Independent, a private weekly, said in a commentary.
Critics say Mugabe, who is seeking to extend his 33 years in power in elections this year, is using intimidation and violence to counter a stiff challenge from Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Mugabe denies the allegations, saying he wants a peaceful vote after a disputed and violent poll in 2008 that forced ZANU-PF and the MDC into a power-sharing coalition.
(Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Editing by Ed Cropley and Pravin Char)

Domestic violence cases on the rise in Matebeleland South

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REPORTED cases of domestic violence in Matabeleland South have sharply increased to 1 087 from 194 in 2008, the Minister of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development, Dr Olivia Muchena has said.
According to the Ministry, the national statistical cases of domestic violence have increased by more than 500 percent to nearly 11 000 cases from 2008 to 2012.
In a speech read on her behalf by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development, Dr Sylvia Utete Masango, during the provincial celebrations of the International Women’s Day Celebrations on Thursday in Bulilima, Minister Muchena said women and girls comprised 99 percent of the victims in gender based violence cases.
This year Women’s Day commemorations are being held nationally under the theme “Peace Begins with Me: Peace Begins with You: Peace Begins with all of Us: Act Now to End Violence against Women and Girls.
“In Zimbabwe women and girls continue to be the victims in 99 percent of gender based violence cases. These cases occur within the home facility setting as well as in institutions such as educational institutions, work places and the public arena,” she said.
Minister Muchena attributed the increase in reported cases of domestic violence to the increase in community based programmes that sought to popularise the Domestic Violence Act of 2007.
“We have programmes that seek to popularise the Domestic Violence Act such as the 4Ps Campaign which operationalises the 365 days of activism against gender based violence.
“The programme is a community based programme that focuses on raising awareness on domestic violence and it has reached out to a total of 10 813 females and 4 666 males in the 164 wards of Matabeleland South province which proves that communities are now well informed and people know what to do when they encounter gender based violence,” she said.
Minister Muchena also said the violence, which was commonly perpetrated against women, was a universal phenomenon that was impeding development in countries.
“Globally, gender based violence is a pandemic that strikes the lives of millions of women, fractures families and communities. It also impedes development costing countries billions of dollars each year which are lost through health care costs, lost productivity and provision of facilities for protection of victims and survivors of gender based violence,” she said.
Minister Muchena also expressed concern as few men were utilising the Domestic Violence Act as they still viewed it as a law that protected women.
“The Domestic Violence Act is still viewed by some, especially men, as a law to protect women but it is a law that seeks to protect women and men, boys and girls within the home.
“What is most disturbing is that very young girls and even babies are victims. Even men are also becoming victims but they suffer in silence to protect their masculinity,” she said.
Minister Muchena said this year’s theme was selected owing to its applicability to different natural processes in the country which promoted the practice of peace and unity.
“We chose this year’s theme because it is applicable to the national processes such as the Ministry’s ongoing programmes on Gender Based Violence, the work of Jomic and the Organ of National Healing Reconciliation and Integration.
“It is also applicable to the recently held referendum on the draft constitution and upcoming harmonised elections which require us as a nation to uphold the values and practice of peace and unity,” she said.
Meanwhile, Bulawayo also held Women’s Day commemorations at the Bulawayo Polytechnic School of Hospitality yesterday.
Speaking during the event Dr Masango said women had a huge responsibility of reducing gender based violence.
“We are the same people who give birth and contribute immensely in the upbringing of the same men we are castigating of violence today. It is up to us as mothers that we ensure that we contribute positively towards the good upbringing of our children to stop violence,” said Dr Masango.
She said men were overwhelming perpetrators of violence but the positive role of organisations such as Padare/Enkundleni could not be underestimated.
“Padare has had positive outcomes in promoting non violence among men and boys within communities. Women who beat their husbands must also be stopped so that the perpetration of violence is put to an end,” she said.

Dr Masango said women economic empowerment was the key into reducing gender based violence.
“Gender based violence can be reduced if women can be empowered economically as they can be able to sustain themselves that is why it is essential that every woman benefits from the women development revolving fund,” she said.
Dr Masango said $1 million has been distributed among women in the 10 provinces through POSB last year and to date Matabeleland South has been able to return the funds.
“Everyone who benefited from the revolving fund must bring back the money so that everyone benefits. Districts that do not bring back the money will not get funding from the Ministry until they pay back what was disbursed to them,” she said.
The International Women’s Day was set aside in 1975 by the United Nations to be recognised by all nations as a day of realising the important role played by women in society and development programmes.